Lawrence E. Abbott

OF COUNSEL

Lawrence E. Abbott is Of Counsel in Cotten Schmidt & Abbott with an emphasis on trial practice.

Notably, Mr. Abbott has tried in excess of 157 cases in the States of Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Alabama, and Montana. The predominant focus of those trials has been in the diverse areas delineated above.

Without being exclusive, certain of those trials have involved (a) claims of individuals of exposure to allegedly toxic chemicals, (b) multiple, simultaneous deaths offshore in the Gulf of Mexico, (c) a maritime casualty involving eleven deaths and three burn survivors aboard a vessel, (d) alleged destruction of thousands of acres of pecan orchards as the result of exposure to a fungicide, (e) a commercial litigation case in which plaintiffs alleged that our client breached a contract for the sale of nitrogen oxide emission reduction credits, (f) a challenge by a homebuilders’ association to the constitutionality of two construction ordinances that had been promulgated and put into effect by our client, and (g) a matter involving platform damage and down-hole reserve losses sustained by two clients as the result of faulty work performed by a contractor.

EDUCATION

B.A., St. Edward’s University, 1967

J.D., Tulane University Law School, 1972

HONORS AND AFFILIATIONS:

DuPont’s “Leader’s Circle Award”

New Orleans City Business Leadership and Law Class of 2009

Sager Award for the Southwest Region of the United States in 2008, given annually by the Minority Corporate Counsel Association to firms who excel in the development and promotion of females and people of color within the legal industry

New Orleans Bar Association

Louisiana State Bar Association (where he has been an Assistant Examiner, Committee on State Bar Administrations, since 1994)